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AUGUST MATITSCH, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

LACE-MAKING MACHINE.

sPEcIFrcAT'roN forming part of Letters Patent No. 705,539, dated .my 22, 1902. Appncanon fusa october 31,1901. sans No. 30,608. (No man.)

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Be it known that I, AUGUST MATITsoH, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary,` and a resident of Vienna, in the Empire of Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Lace-Making Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine for producin g pillow-lace, which resembles those described in the specifications of British Letters Patents previously granted to me and numbered 3,987 of 1897, 16,971 of 1897, 20,540 of 1898, and 16,669 of 1899, but which, first, the connection of the pushers and needles with the jacquards acting upon them (which are bottom-bar jacquards instead-of,- as hitherto, Manchester jacquards provided above the machine) is effected by peculiarly-shaped p thin bars (hereinafter called lifting-bars) instead of by cords, so that the disadvantages of cords (elongation and contraction resulting from the action of the weather, as well as breaking) are obviated; second, the speed of the machine is doubled by providing two jacquards for the middle pushers and causing them to lift pawls connected to the slides thereof instead of causing the slides themselves to be lifted bya singlejacquard; third, instead of one group of needles, there are employed three groups of needles, of which two (the front and back groups of needles, hereinafter called the adjusting-needles?) separate from one another and adjust the threads that form the twists, so that they are lifted in a proper and certain manner bythe third group of needles, (hereinafter called the 1ifting-needles,) which lift the threads at any desired times and to any desired heights and then hold them raised as long as desired; fourth, a bar provided with teeth is used for the purpose of preventing the threads of the back carriages, after the needles that serve for separating and adjusting them have duced; sixth, the comb-teeth are formed in such a way that they can be embedded at both ends in metal by casting it about them, so that they cannot be shifted and that the carriages will be prevented from being shifted laterally, and thereby going into wrong slots on passing from one comb into another; seventh, instead of, as in the machines described in the aforesaid specifications, carriages that end upward in points and serve for guiding the threads and which in consequence of their height shake at their points, whereby certainty of insertion of needles,and consequently correct raising of the twists, is rendered impossible, carriages having truncated upper edges are employed; eighth, peculiarly-formed connections are used between the pushers and needles and the slides for the purpose of enabling each pusher and each needle to be easily removed from the machine independently of the others; ninth, the pawls for raising the needles are provided with stepped projections at the parts on which the longitudinal bar acting on them presses, so that only one longitudinal bar is required for operating the pawls and only one pawl is necessary for each needle.

Figure 1 of the drawings shows the essential parts of a machine according to this invention in cross-section. Fig. 2 shows aportion of one ofl the lifting-bars, and Fig. 3 shows a portion of a lifting-bar of another kind; Fig. illustrates diagrammatically a known connection between a pusher-slide and the wire of a Manchester jacquard. Fig. 4 shows a portion of the bar m82. Fig. 5 illustrates diagrammatically the connection between a lifting-bar and a bottom-bar jacquard. Fig. 6 is an enlarged end view showing the adjustable mounting for the combs. Fig. 7 shows the means for shifting the combs. Fig. 8 is a side view of the loom, showing the `driving mechanism and shifting devices of Fig. 7 in side elevation. Fig. 9 shows the means for actuating the rollers. Fig. 10 shows the cam motion to actuate the bars M1?; Fig. 11, a similar mechanism for the bars M72 and M13. Figs. 12 and 13 show similar devices for moving the bars M3, M32, and M53; Fig. 14, the cam mechanism to operate the bar M34; Fig. 15, the operating mechanism for bar M21; Fig. 16, that for bar M22; Fig. 17 that for bar M23,

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"to the gear 202 on the shaft W4.

"vertical cam-shaft W20.

ana Fig. is that for bai- M21. Fig. 19 is a diagram of the lifting-bars and their projections; Fig. 20, the mechanism to move the shafts D, D21, D22, and D3 and their connected parts. Fig. 2l shows the mechanism to operate the lace-holding needles/n and n2. Fig. 22 shows the means for operating the serrated bar m82 on the lace-holding needles; Fig. 23, mechanism to operate the bars M41 and M42; Fig. 24, that for operating the bars M43 and M51, and Fig. 25 that for the bars M52. Fig. 26 is a partial front elevation showing the driving mechanism at the end of the machine shown in Fig. 8 and also a dropper-jacquard for operating the pattern thread-bars B. Fig. 262t isa detail view showing the manner of mounting the pushers. Figs. 27 and 28 are diagrams illustrating the arrangement of the jacquards employed.

As will be seen from Fig. l, three combs are, as previously employed, for receiving and guiding the carriages-namely, a front comb C', a middle comb C2, and a back comb C2. The teeth of the combs are embedded at the places marked @La7 in tin cast about them. By pouring molten tin between the blades at e-c2, instead of at e, e4, and e7 only, as previously, the carriages are caused to be firmly guided between the comb-teeth throughout their entire course and the several teeth are prevented from altering their relative positions. Itis impossible, therefore, for the carriages in passing from one comb to another to move laterally and enter the wrong slots. The combs are, as before,arran ged on the same arc of a circle in such a manner that a Vertical line drawn from the centerm of the said circle will pass through the center of the vacant space between the front comb and the middle comb. In this intermediate space an'd im mediately below the combs C' and C2 there are, as usual, arranged the top or pattern bars (hereinafter called pattern-bars) B with their bearings.

The combs C', O2, and C2 are mounted for adjustment as shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings. Each comb has an arm c', c2, or c3 at each end, mounted on a stud W15. The combs C and C3 are moved by the mechanism shown in Figs. '7 and 8, which are respectively a partial plan and an elevation of the righthand end of the machine. At each end of thetmachine there is a cam-shaft W20, carrying two cams C11 and C22, which operate the combs C and C3, respectively, through levers C111 and C222. The shaft W2o is driven from the main shaft W' by the following mechanism: The main driving-shaft W has a-gear 204, that drives one 203 on the shaft W2, that carries the gear 205, which transmits motion The gear 202 also drives one 201 on the shaft W5, that carries a bevel-pinion 206, that meshes with the bevel-wheel 200, that is on and drives the Under the comb C2 there is also, as in roller-machines, a toothed driving-roller R2, whose teeth engage with the teeth of the toothed arcsl on the carriages. By rotating the toothed roller the carriages engaged by it will be brought from the front comb into the middle comb, and Vice versa. The roller R2 is rotated to and fro as required from the shaft W5 at each end by two cams R3 and R4, Fig. 9, acting on rollers carried by two arms of a compound lever R5, loosely mounted on the shaft W3 and connected by a link R5 with a toothed sector R2, mounted loosely on the pin W15 and in gear with the roller R2.

At the beginning of the operation there is a series of carriages in the front comb and a second series in the back comb, but none in the middle comb. The carriages whose threads are to form twists are brought simultaneously from the front and back combs into the middle comb. The transfer of the carriages from the middle comb to the front and back combsis also effected simultaneously, and at each transfer' all the carriages are moved out of the middle comb. In each slot of the front comb there is a pusher or picker P, (hereinafter called a front pusher,) in each slot of the middle comb a pusher P2, (hereinafter called a middle pusher,) and in each slot of the back comb a pusher P2, (hereinafter called a back pusher.) The upwardly-projecting ends of the pushers engage the teeth of the toothed arcs of the carriages,'so that the carriages are secured and guided by the pushers. Fig. l shows that the operative ends of the pushers P are small toothedarcslikethoseofthepushersP. The pushers are loosely mounted on shafts d', d2, and d5, so that each pusher can be rotated independently of the others. The shafts d and d3 are rigidly connected to the combs C and C3, respectively. To the combs C and C3 are attached brackets e111 and e122, in which the shafts d and d2 are respectively fixed. These shafts and the pushers carried by them will therefore be moved simultaneously with these combs and, like them, in the longitudinal direction of the machine.

YSince the pushers, lifting-needles, slides, and pawls come very close'one to another in the machine, a suitable connection of the same is of particular importance, as the certainty of operation of the machine is thereby very considerably aected. The parts mentioned and their connections must have no projecting portions that could strike together, and thereby interfere with their movements. Moreover, they must not press one against another. On the contrary, each part must be adapted to move easily. Finally, it must be possible to remove each pusher,liftingneedle, slide, and pawl from the machine independently of the others. If rivets were used, it

would be found that in consequence of the pushes that are` continually exerted upon them and are continuously changed in direction they would soon wear and might become loose and fall out, since they would necessarily be of small dimensions, so that interrup- IIO tions in the working of the machine and damage to the pushers might occur. lA certain connection between the parts in question and the slides that satisfies all requirements is obtained in this machine by making that portion of each pusher, lifting-needle,'or pawl at which the connection is to be made circular and placing it in a guide of the corresponding slide.

In Fig. l the consequently circular ends of the pushers, to which the slides are connected, are indicated by dotted lines at G G2 G3 and that of the lifting-needle shown at G5. The guiding of these ends is effected by providing in the slides to be jointed notches in which the rounded ends of the pushers, lifting-needles, or pawls fit. To each side of this part of each slide there is riveted a thin plate for the purpose of covering the notch, so that the ends of the pushers, lifting-needles, and pawls placed in the notches cannot come out. v

The riveted plates lnust be so long that when two adjacent slides are being moved into two opposite extreme positions the riveted plates will always overlap, and consequently their ends can never strike together.

The several pushers are separated one from another at the parts thereof through which pass the shafts d, d2, and d3 by guide-blades 207 208 209, that are placed between them and form combs by being embedded in cast-tin. The blades are perforated, and the shafts d', d1, and d3 are pushed through the circular holes formed thereby.

In order to enable the pushers to be mounted on their shafts, the pushers are slotted at the parts of them that are placed on the shafts, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. l, at 210, 211, and 212.

Each shaft is not perfectly cylindrical, but is flattened on one side, and the slots in the pushers are made in such a way that the pushers can'bemounted on their shafts by means of them. When this has been eected, the shafts are rotated and fixed with their iat surfaces opposite to the slots in the pushers. When the shafts are in this position, the pushers cannot be removed from their shafts by means of the slots. Consequently they are securely mounted on theshat'ts.

In order to remove a pushermfor example, P-its shaft d is rotated, so that the pusher can be removed therefrom. To render this possible, it must also be disconnected from its slide B. This is effected by raising the slide until the end of the pusher comes out of the guide G' in which it has been engaged.

Fig. l shows a carriage A in its front position and held by a pusher P' in .the front comb. In the middle comb a carriage A2 is shown in the middle position-c'. c., completely Within the comb-and held therein by a pusher P2 in such a way that it is outof contact with the toothed roller R2. In the back comb a carriage Asis shown in the rear position-z1 e., completely within the comb* and heldby a pusher P3.

To each pusher there is connected a slide B', B2, or B3. The slides are provided with projections N, acted upon by longitudinal bars M, which are arranged above and below the slides and by means of which the slides are held fast and are moved toward and away from the combs.

The raising or correct upward rotation of the slides, and consequently their holding fast or shifting, is ei'ected by the shifting of the lifting-bars, and consequently by the action of the bottombar jacquards connected with the lifting-bars. All the slides of a set are connected with a separate bottom-bar jacquard. Since each slide (or wire equivalent) of a bottom-bar jacquard can be operated independently of the other slides there` of, the slide B connected therewith will be held fast or moved in accordance with the jacquard-card, and the carriages which are connected with the slides B by means of the pushers can consequently beheld fast in the combs or be transferred from one comb to another, as desired.

At the commencement of the operation the jacquards connected with the slides come into action, and thereby determine which carriages are to be held in the outer positions and which must be brought into the middle position. In order to transfera carriage A' to the middle comb, the slide, B connected therewith is raised through the action of the corresponding jacquard, so that its projection N12 comes between longitudinal bars M12 and M13, which are rigidly connected together, and the projection N11 is raised higher than a longitudinal bar M11. i

In order to holda carriage A in the front position, the corresponding slide must not be raised. In this case the projection N11 is on a level with the longitudinal bar M11, and the slide is prevented from moving forward by the longitudinal bar M11. The stop-bar M11 is fixed and prevents the slide from moving too farbackward through the speed of working. As soon as the lifting of the slides `has been eifected the bar M11 moves about one-sixteenth of an inch backward,and the projections N11 of the raised slides are thus caused to become located over the bar M11, which prevents the raised slides from fall ing, so that the operation of the jacquard can then cease. The movement of the bar M11 now ceases. The bars M12 and M13 now begin to move forward, and the bar M13 pushes the raised slides forwardht'. e., toward the combs-whereby the carriages connected thereto are moved to the middle comb;

The raised slides B3 hold the carriages fast `in the back comb in consequence of the fact that their projections N3S are at the `same level as and behind a longitudinal bar M34, and are thereby prevented from moving forward. The slides are prevented frommoving IOO ros

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too far backward in consequence of the speed at which they work by a longitudinal stopbar M35. After theraising the longitudinal bars M31, M32, and M33 begin to move forward. The bars M32 and M33 are rigidly connected together. Since the projections N31 of the unlifted slides are between the bars M31 and M32, these slides are pushed forward and bring their pushers and carriages from the back comb to the middle comb. The bars M11, M12, and M13,'that actuate the front pushers, are operated from the shaft W4 at each end by two pairs of cams 1 and 1n and 2 and 2, Figs.

10 and 11, which act, respectively, on com-- pound levers 3 and 4, mounted loosely on the shaft W3 and connected by links 5 and 6 to carriages 7 and 8, carrying the bars and mounted to slide on a Xed rod 9. The bars M31, M32, and M33 are operated similarly from the shaft W5 by means of cams 10 and 101 and 11 and 1111, Figs. 12`and 13, levers 12 and 13, mounted loosely on a shaft D', links 14 and 15, and carriages 16 and 17, mounted to slide on a fixed rod 18.

The effect on the corresponding carriages of raising the front slides or allowing them to remain at rest is the reverse of the effect of so treatingthe back slides. Raising front slides causes the respective carriages to be transferred from the front comb to the middle comb, or vice versa, and allowing front slides to remain at rest causes the respective carriages to be held fast in the front comb. In the case of the back slides the opposite occurs. Consequently the raised slides hold theV carriages fast in the back comb and vthe unlifted ones cause them to be transferred from the back comb to the middle comb, or vice versa. The reason for this is that in consequence of it and of the manner in which the pawls of the middle pushers are operated, as'

hereinafter described, to cause these pushers to coperate with those of the front and back combs the-pattern-cards have to be perforated in such a manner that faults in the cards of the jacquards belonging to the three slides can be detected with certainty on suitably placing the cards one upon another.

, When a carriage has to be brought from the front vcomb into the middle comb, or vice versa,there must be a hole for the corresponding pusher both in the pattern-card of the front-pusher jacquard and in that of the middle-pusher'jacquard. When, on the other hand, a carriage has to be brought from the back comb into the middle comb, or vice versa, there must be no hole for the corresponding -pusher either in the pattern-card of the backpusher jacquard or in that of the middlepusher jacquard. From this it will be seen that there must be holes for the coperating pushers in the cards for the front-pusher and middle-pusher jacquards, but, on the other hand, there must be no holes for cooperating pushers in the cards of the backpnsher and middle-pusher jacquards. Consequently if the cards for the front-pusher and middle-pusherjacquards be laid one upon another in such a way that the places where the holes for the cooperating pushers should be coincide there must be a hole through the two cards for the pushers that eect the transfer of the carriages from the front comb to 'the middle comb, or vice versa. On the other hand, in the cards for the back-pusher and middle-pusher jacquards there must be no hole through the two cards for the coperating pushers when a carriage has to be transferred from the back comb to the middle comb, or vice versa. If it be found, therefore, that when two corresponding cards of the front-pusher and middle -pusher jacquards are placed one upon the other the card ofthe front-pusher jacquard has a hole, while that of the middle-pusher jacquard has none, this will indicate a fault. If these cards are to effect the transfer o'f a carriage from the front comb to the middle comb, this means either that the middle pusher, which has to receive the carriage, would not be moved toward the front comb or that the front pusher would transfer a carriage to the middle comb, which ought not to be brought there. Similar remarks apply to all remaining cases in which the superposed cards do not correspond. It is therefore possible simply by laying the cards one upon another to discover the faults in them. Faults that occur in punching the cards and also those that the draftsman has made in the preparation of the diagrams for the card-puncher are thus rendered visible. This method of comparing the cards is much quicker and more certain than the usual reading off of the cards. 1

In order to bring a carriage fromthe front or the back position to the middle position, thecorresponding outer pusher must be rotated toward the middle comb. A similar movement, butin the opposite direction, must occur in order to bring a carriage from the middle-position to the outer position.

In ord'er to be able to work quickly and surely, it is necessary that there should be a suitable interval between each descent and the next following raising of each slide and pawl. The raised slides and pawls must therefore fall as soon as possible after the beginning of the return to the original position and be raised before the arrival there. To enable this to be done in the case of the slides B, the longitudinal bar M12mustbe formed,as shown, with a forward inclination downward, so that during its backward movement it will exert little or no friction on the backwardly-moving slides B1 to retard their descent. Furthermore, the bar M11 should be pushed quickly forward at the proper time, so as to move away from the projections N11 immediately after the commencement of the backward movement of the slides. To secure this in the case of the back-pusher slides B3, the bar M34 is raised above the projections N33 of the raised slides immediately after the commencement of the IIO in the outer combs.

return movement of the unlifted slides into their initial positions. Furthermore, the bar M31 moves more quickly backward than the bar M33 at this moment, so as to move away from under the projections N31 of the raised slides. Finally, the bar M33 is formed so as to prevent the projections N31 of slides released by the bar M311 from moving over the bar M33 at the moment of release and before their projections N31 fall between the longitudinal bars M31 and M33. The bar M31 is worked by a cam 19, Fig. 14:, on a shaft W10, driven from the shaft W5 through a toothed wheel mounted on a shaft VG. The cam 19 acts upon a roller 20,' mounted on a lever 2l, loosely mounted on the shaft W1i and jointed to a bar 22 at its upper end, carrying the bar M31 and having a pin-and-slot connection 23 with.. an arm 24C, which is loosely mounted on an axle W31 and serves to limit the forward and backward movements of the upper end of the bar22.

The slides B' and B3 require to be selected by the jacquard only forholding the carriages For bringing the carriages out of the middle comb no selection of the slides B and B3 by the jacquards is required, since carriages can be brought from the middle comb only into the 4slots of the outer combs that were already empty before the commencement of the transfer of the carriages into the middle comb or were emptied by the transfer. If in bringing in the carriages there have been moved toward the middle comb all the outer pushers that have no carriages to hold fast in the outer combst'. e., all those that are not connected to any carriages-all the pushers that can bring out carriages have been brought toward the middle comb. All these pushers are returned to their original positions at the proper moment when the carriages leave .the middle comb.

All the carriages coming from the middle j' comb are therefore engaged bypushers and are brought into the outer combs.

Since carriages are simultaneously brought from the front and back positions into the middle position, and vice versa, it follows that simultaneously with each of these movements some of the slides B3, acting upon the middle pushers, have to be moved forward and some of them have to be moved backward. Consequently in the same time in which the jacquards belonging to the slides B and B3have to come into operation the jacquards of the slides B3 must act twice. The iirsttime they effect the selection of the slides to be moved forward or backward in order to bring the carriages from the outer combs into the middle comb. The second time they have to come into action in order to select the slides B3 that have to bring carriages into the front and back combs. If this were to be eifected in a manner similar to that used in the case of the slides of the outer pushers, certainty of action of the machine would necessitate a lower speed, and the result thereof would be a reduction of the output. In order to obviate this,

there are connected to each middle slide two pawls K31 and K33,which are provided with projections T31 andr33, r33, and r31, upon which act longitudinal bars. Of these pawls the pawls K31 come into operation for bringing carriages into the middle comb and the others, K33, for bringing carriages out of the middle comb. Suflicient time is thereby gained for their double rising and falling, so that the machine can work with certainty at a considerablyhigher speed than withoutthem. In the case of the slides B3 the jacquards act through their lifting-bars upon their pawls K31 and K33 instead of on the slides themselves. `At the beginning of the operation all the pushers P3 are in their middle positions.

The selection of the pawl by the jacquard for bringing carriages from the front and back combs into the middle comb is eected when the pushers P3 are in this position. The jacquard raises the pawls K31 that have to bring carriages from "the back comb, but not those that have to bring carriages from the front comb. The pawls K33, which act only for bringing carriages ont of the middlecomb, remain at rest. After the pawls have been raised the bar M31 first moves forward and comes under the projections of the raised pawls K31, so that these pawls are thereby prevented from falling, and the lifting-bars in question can then be put out of operation. Thereupon the longitudinal bar M33 begins to move backward. The lifting-bars 531 are shifted by one single-lift jacquard and the lifting-bars Z133 by anothersingle-liftjacquard. (Instead, however, of two single -lift jacquards, as I prefer, there might be used one double-lift jacquard.) The longitudinal bar M31 presses against the projections r31 of the IOO IOT.'

unlifted pawls K31 and moves the slides cony nected therewith forward and the corresponding pushers toward the front comb. The longitudinal bar M33 presses against the projections 1'33 of the raised pawls K31, and

thus moves the slides connected therewith backward and the corresponding pushers toward the back comb. Through this movement the pushers connected to the slides B3 are moved and placed in such a way that the teeth of the carriages come to be over the projecting ends of the pushers, Thereupon the said bars return to their original positions. On their return the bars M31 and M33 press, respectively, against the projections N31 and N33 of the slides B3, whereby their return to the middle position is eifected. The pushers P3 are thus rotated, and consequently engage in the toothed arcs of the carriages brought out of the outer combs, and on their return to their original positions (which takes place at this time) bring these carriages into their middle positions. In the meantime the jacquard has acted upon the pawls K33, so as to effecttheir selection, and the corresponding slides are then moved in a manner similar to that of the previous movement, with the exception that now the bars M33 and M34 act IIO 

